Sentences with phrase «cellular power plants»

Alu's shenanigans may keep TOMM40, which helps cellular power plants called mitochondria run, from doing its job.

Previous studies have linked telomeres to the function of mitochondria (essential cell organelles that act as cellular power plants) and vice versa.

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

School of Medicine researchers have described a missing link in understanding how damage to the body's cellular power plants leads to Parkinson's disease and some forms of heart failure.

Their findings, which are published on today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), come from an analysis of DNA extracted from goat mitochondriasmall organelles that work as cellular power plants.

Unless they are removed by degradation, aggregates accumulate preferentially in the mitochondria, the cellular power plants, ultimately blocking energy production.

Mitochondria, long known as «cellular power plants» for their generation of the key energy source adenosine triphosphate (ATP), are essential for proper cellular functions.

The performance of the cellular power plants is greatly reduced in many forms of cancer.

They found that granzymes interrupt metabolism within the parasite's mitochondria (the cellular power plant).

It thus seems quite likely that this new signaling path also links the performance of the cellular power plants and cell division in human cells,» says Meisinger, who now plans to analyze these mechanisms in tumor tissues.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A new study from the Gladstone Institutes shows for the first time that impairments in mitochondria — the brain's cellular power plants — can deplete cellular energy levels and cause neuronal dysfunction in a model of neurodegenerative disease.

Better still, red light triggers the cellular power plants called mitochondria to work better through something called the mitochondrial transport chain.

A substance called nitrate, which is abundantly found in vegetables like beetroot, spinach and lettuce, boosts the cellular power plants of the muscles, known as the mitochondria.

The single most effective way of improving the functioning of your cellular power plants is to become a fat burning beast.

You'll improve the efficiency of your cellular power plants because of getting fuel directly from your adipose tissue.